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MOOCs are Trending

Massively Open Online Courses or MOOCS seem to be all the rage in elite higher education. Stanford, MIT, Harvard and others are all bringing selected course offerings online to the public for free. Is this just a fad or are we all going to be Ivy League-educated someday?

Guest: Michael Smith, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and lead to disproportionate discipline for students of color.